Star reporter Adrian Wojnarowski, the NBA's most influential
insider, will be staying at Yahoo,
according to Jason McIntyre of The Big Lead, and it might not
have happened if Marissa Mayer did not get involved in the
negotiations.

It had
previously been reported by McIntyre that Wojnarowski
was being “heavily courted by multiple media outlets,” and that
Sports Illustrated was considered the favorite to lure him away
from Yahoo Sports. The idea was that SI, or wherever Woj landed,
would give him his own vanity sports website completely devoted
to the NBA under the banner of a larger company,
something akin to Peter King's NFL vertical,
TheMMQB.com.

It is unclear if Yahoo will give Wojnarowski his own MMQB-like
vertical, but sources did tell The Big Lead that Mayer “made a
significant long-term commitment to build an NBA-type franchise
around Wojnarowski.”